Hello, this is a video explaining the past simple.

What did you do on the weekend?

Do you know the following countries?

Can you recognise the flag without reading the country name?

What do we call people from these countries?

Nationality means where someone or something is from.

I am from Australia, I am Australian.

Toyota is from Japan. It is Japanese.

Look below each flag to learn what we call people and things from each country

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When we talk about languages spoken it is sometimes the same word as nationality.

For example:

They speak Japanese in Japan. (the language is from Japan, so it is Japanese.)

What about other countries? Do you know what languages the above countries speak?

What language do Brazilians and Mexicans speak?

If you said Spanish you would be half correct.

Spanish is spoken in Mexico, but there are some differences. So people often call it Mexican Spanish.

What about Brazil?

They speak Portuguese.

But wait, what country is Portuguese from?

Do you recognise the flag on the left?

That’s half of the Portuguese flag. It’s from the country Portugal.

What is the main language spoken in Australia, the US and the UK?

Did you say English? I hope you did.

Why is English called English?

Why isn’t it called British?

Why isn’t it called American or Australian?

The language English comes from the country England which is a part of the United Kingdom. British refers to anyone from the four kingdoms of the UK: Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.

The term English also refers to people and things from England.

For example

The English soccer team.

Why do so many countries around the world have English as their national language?

Are you studying any languages? Why are you studying them? How are you learning it?

I am taking a class at the moment.

Present continuous is used to talk about what you are doing now.

We form it by using the present form of the be verb with the ing version of the verb.

For example:

I am using a computer now.

All the rules for using be verb apply:

You are reading.

He is driving a car.

English sense of now does not necessarily mean right now. It can be something that you started earlier this week and will finish later in the week.

for example:

I am reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

I’m not reading it right now but it is something I started reading earlier this week and will finish today or tomorrow. This is still considered something I am doing now.

Compare to:

I read fantasy novels.

This is the simple present. It means something I do regularly. In this case I regularly read novels in the fantasy genre.

You can use both simple present and present continuous to mean something similar.

For example:

I am taking English classes.

I take English classes.

These sentences are almost the same in meaning. The first one however suggests that it is something you recently started.

Another example:

I am living in Mexico.

I live in Mexico.

These mean almost the same thing. Either one can be used. As in the above example the first one may suggest that you recently moved to Mexico. Another possible difference is when you are talking to a friend who doesn’t know you moved to Mexico and you are giving them new information about what you are doing.

Adult Wednesday Class Week 3 August 2018

Vocabulary review

go to college / university

live at home – this phrase usually means living with your parents

write a paper – this phrase means writing a report, essay, article usually for academic purposes

take a class – this means a specific subject that you are studying either at a university or in a learning institution.

Listen to the following and answer the questions in Stretch 2 unit 3 1C and 1D

Listen again and write down the questions asked in the conversation.

Ask the questions to a partner.

Today’s topic was the perks companies offer their employees.

First we discussed what is the work-life of a typical Japanese company?

Here is what we had:

difficult to read?

Here is what we said:

We learnt a new word; perks.

A perk of a job means the services a company gives its workers. For example, use of a company car, a company mobile phone, free coffee and tea, a place to sleep.

Here is a list of perks you can find in Japanese companies.

Finally we could watch a video on the perks the company Google gives it’s employees.

Week 2

Yes / No Questions in the present simple

What is a yes/no question?

A yes / no question is a question where the answer is usually yes or no.

for example: Are you a student at Rising Sun English School?

What is the present simple?

Present simple is used to talk about habits, daily activities, facts, and things you do regularly.

For example

I wake up at around 6 am everyday.

I make breakfast for my family everyday.

I am from Australia.

Nishikori Kei plays tennis.

What is a yes / no question in the simple present?

A yes / no question in the simple present is usually asking a question about your daily activities or about facts.

For example:

Are you a student at Rising Sun English School?

Am I from Australia?

How we do it:

Using the verb be

The verb be in the present simple: is, am, are

It means =.

“I am a student.” means I = student.

How do I make it into a question?

you = student?

Are you a student?

you = on vacation?

Are you on vacation?

They = from Thailand?

Are they from Thailand?

How we do it:

Using other verbs

What is a verb?

A verb is an action word such as run, jump, live, work, etc.

What is the action in this sentence:

I drive to work.

If you said work you are wrong. In this case work is a noun. It means the place I work.

Drive is the action.

How do I make it a question?

We don’t say:

Are you drive to work?

You need to use the help verb do / does.

Do you drive to work?

Does he spend time online?

Do I attend Japanese classes?

In these cases we can just add do or does to the front of the sentence and add a question mark.

Now try the exercises in Stretch 1 page 10 and the grammar on page 83.

Week 3

Do you have a healthy lifestyle?

p 11 of stretch 1.

This reading looks at the results of a class survey. The class had 20 students in it. Read the results and decide if the class is healthy or not.

Now answer the questions yourself.

Are you healthy?

Let’s discuss the survey questions:

Do you think 8 hours is too much sleep?

Do you think it is ok to spend more than three hours a day using a computer or watching TV?

Do you think that you don’t have to walk to work to be a healthy person?

Brainstorm some things you do that are healthy and unhealthy then fill in the gaps D page 11

Wednesday Adult Class

Stretch 1 Unit 2

Listening

Listen to the following phone conversation between a man and a woman.

Question:

Why did the man phone the woman?

Listen again

Question:

Where do they live?

How do they travel to work?

Reading Stretch 1 Unit 2 page 9

Asking follow up questions

When you have a conversation use follow up questions to get more information and continue the conversation.

Ask your partner:

Do you ____ to work? (eg, drive, walk, take the train, etc)

Continue the conversation for as long as you can using follow up questions.